RV Oceania

RV Oceania

RV "Oceania", or SY "Oceania", is a tall ship, owned by the Polish Academy of Sciences, and used as a research vessel.

She was built in 1985 in the Gdańsk Shipyard in Poland, after the design of Zygmunt Choreń. The hull was based on plans of earlier tall ships: ORP "Iskra II" and "Pogoria", but its rigging was different. "Oceania" was originally a full rigged ship, with three masts (each 32 meters high). On every mast there was only one sail, in the shape of a vertical rectangle (sometimes "Oceania" was classified as a frigate), but later the yards and the sail from the mizzen-mast were removed. Sails are raised and driven hydraulically.

The ship is equipped with laboratories able to provide hydrographic, optic, acoustic, chemical, biological and particulate experiments and observations.

External links

* [http://www.iopan.gda.pl/oceania/oceania.html#A1 Official page of RV "Oceania"]


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